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Tiverton Parkway railway station is on the Bristol to Exeter line in Devon, England.Despite being named after the town of Tiverton, it is actually located a short distance from the village of Sampford Peverell, 6 miles (9.7 km) to the east of Tiverton, and close to the junction of the M5 motorway with the A361 North Devon link road.
GWR 1400 Class 0-4-2T 1442, known as the "Tivvy Bumper" at Tiverton, 1968. The branch shuttle service was known locally as the Tivvy Bumper.It used an Autocoach. [1] One of the locomotives used to run the service (no 1442) is now on display at the Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life, having been purchased by Lord Amory in 1965, and moved to the museum in 1978 to protect it from the weather.) [2] [3]
The most recent closure was Tiverton Junction, which was replaced by a new station at Tiverton Parkway on a site closer to Junction 27 of the M5 motorway, where the North Devon Relief Road joins it. 13 stations remain open on the line today, but there have been proposals to reopen stations at Cullompton and Wellington.
Penge East railway station is on the Chatham Main Line in England, serving part of the Penge and Sydenham areas in the London Borough of Bromley, south London. It is 7 miles 15 chains (11.6 km) down the line from London Victoria and is situated between Sydenham Hill and Kent House .
Penge Common was an area of north east Surrey and north west Kent which now forms part of London, England; covering most of Penge, all of Anerley, and parts of surrounding suburbs including South Norwood. [1] It abutted the Great North Wood and John Rocque's 1745 map of London and its environs showed that Penge Common now included part of that ...
The new Tiverton Library and council offices. Tiverton's revival in recent years began with the construction of the A361 (the North Devon Link Road) in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, an industrial estate was built at Little Gornhay on the north-eastern edge of the town and a junction was added to the Link Road, with a distributor road (now the A396) into the town that has become its main gateway.
Betts Park (also known as King George's Field [1]) is a public park in Anerley, London Borough of Bromley, in southeast London, England. [2] It is approximately 13 acres (5 hectares) and has a number of attractions, including part of the old Croydon Canal and the Heart of Anerley obelisk .
The Tiverton Museum of Mid Devon Life has one of the largest museum collections in the West Country, and contains various exhibits relating to the economic and social life of the region. [4] One of the most popular exhibits is the Great Western Railway steam locomotive number 1442 of the 1400 Class, known as the "Tivvy Bumper".